Antioch (Place)

Antioch (Place) 

 

Mosaic at Antioch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch_mosaics 

The Antioch mosaics are a grouping of over 300 mosaic floors created around the 3rd century AD, and discovered during archaeological excavations of Antioch (Antioch on the Orontes, in modern Turkey) between 1932 and 1939 by a consortium of five museums and institutions. 

Antioch was an ancient city located just outside the modern day city of Antakya, Turkey.[1] During the reign of Hadrian, during the 2nd century, through to the reign of Justinian in the 6th century, mosaic floors were the fashion in the city and its surrounding suburbs. The city thrived until it was destroyed by earthquakes in 526 and 528. The tesserae for the mosaics include both white and colored marble as well as white and colored limestone.

Antioch

Antioch is inherited from Middle English Antioche, from Old French Antioche, from Latin Antiochīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀντιόχεια (Antiókheia), from Ἀντίοχος (Antíokhos) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”) The name is a Latinized form of the Greek Antíochos (Ἀντίοχος). Anti + ékhō : It's a compound of the Greek words antí ("against") and ékhō ("to have" or "to hold").  The combination results in a literal meaning of "holding fast," "resistant," or "holding out against".

 

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